Wiiliston State College Sets Enrollment Record -- February 11, 2017

Press release here. Data points:

• for the fourth time since Spring, 2015, a new record
• 1,168 students
• 2017: enrollment up almost 14% compared to Spring, 2016

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If You Have To Ask, You Can't Afford It?

How Much Is That Doggie In The Window? Patti Page
The Permian is getting a bit pricey at $60,000/acre. Story at Bloomberg. 

Explorers eager to tap the basin’s mile-thick stack of oil-soaked rock layers have paid as much as $60,000 an acre. That marks a 50-fold explosion in deal prices over four years, according to Wood Mackenzie Ltd. It also pushes the cost 10 times higher than in the Bakken of North Dakota. 

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Too Bad, Too Sad

Sad face: 

The Environmental Protection Agency's presence at an environmental conference in Alaska this week was cut in half, after the Trump administration's transition officials ordered the change. The agency had helped to plan the Alaska Forum on the Environment — but days before it was to start, word came that half of the EPA's 34 planned attendees wouldn't be making the trip.

It was said that Algore would fund / host instead, but now I'm hearing on NRP Radio that the conference has been canceled. If true, that's too bad: would love to see Algore actually pay for some of these conferences.